Watching You

Robotham renders the ordinary extraordinary … delivers the kind of adrenalin rush a gripping thriller is expected to deliver. - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

No other crime writer investigates the psychopath’s compulsion with such forensic rigour or quite the same elegant and poised prose. - THE AUSTRALIAN

Always surprising and never dull… the plot is so twisted and the psychology so perverse, even the most alert reader might misread the clues. - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

a steady and commanding book with an ending that’s sure to give even the most jaded reader a shock - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (US)

Before becoming a novelist, Michael Robotham was a feature writer and investigative reporter working in Britain, Australia and America, and with clinical and forensic psychologists as they helped police investigate complex, psychologically driven crimes.

2024 marked the 20-year anniversary of the publication of his debut thriller, The Suspect, which introduced clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin, sold more than a million copies around the world and is now a major TV series starring Aidan Turner on ABC TV. Michael’s standalone thriller The Secrets She Keeps was adapted for TV by Network 10 and the BBC.

Michael is the only Australian to twice win the UK’s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel, for Life or Death and Good Girl, Bad Girl as well as the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for When She Was Good. Lying Beside You was shortlisted for the Australian Crime Writers Association’s Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 2023. Storm Child, his fourth novel in his globally bestselling Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac series, was a No. 1 national bestseller in Australia. The White Crow is the second book in his Philomena McCarthy series, following on from the internationally bestselling When You Are Mine.

Michael lives in Sydney.